"What  Goes  On  In 
The  Nunneries?" 

and 

Is  Your  Brain  For  Sale? 


By  THOS.  E.^ATSON 

Author  of  "The  Story  of  France,"  "Napoleon,"  "Life  and  Times 

of  Andrew  Jackson,"  "Life  and   Times  of   Thomas 

Jefferson,"  "The  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy,"  Etc. 


FOURTH   EDITION 


Published   by 

The  Tom  Watson  Book  Company 

Thomson,  Georgia 


"What  Goes  On  In  The  Nunneries?" 


THE  Romanists  of  Milwaukee  publish  a  paper  which  is 
known  as  The  New  Century. 
Recently,  this  very  enterprising  periodical  got  out  a 
special  issue,  which,  for  reasons  best  known  to  its  publishers, 
was  named  "The  Cock  and  Bull  Story  edition." 

Naturally,  it  is  full  of  Cock  and  Bull  stories. 

One  of  these  is  about  the  cloistered  convents. 

The  New  Century  asks,  "What  goes  on  in  the  Nunneries?" 
and  then  dodges  the  question  by  praising  convent  schools, 
and  the  Catholic  ladies  who  nurse  and  teach. 

The  cloistered  nunnery  is  a  different  institution,  alto- 
gether, and  it  was  established  after  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  had  made  it  obligatory  upon  priests  to  remain  un- 
married. 

Normal,  full-sexed  priests  are  composed  of  the  same 
carnal  elements  as  other  men,  and  they  have  to  have  ivomen. 

The  average  priest  is  as  sensual  a  looking  person  as  you 
will  meet  in  any  walk  of  life. 

He  enjoys  the  best  of  wines  and  meats,  and  his  red  blood 
is  just  as  hot  with  periodical  desire  for  a  woman,  as  yours 
or  mine  ever  was. 

The  average  priest  either  makes  a  concubine  out  of  his 
"housekeeper,"  or  he  regularly  uses  the  nuns  of  the  clois- 
tered convent. 

The  New  York  Call  published  the  following  item  of  news : 

Vera  Cruz,  April  10.— It  was  recently  determined 
to  open  a  new  street  in  this  city,  in  order  to  make 
the  Pharos  Building,  wherein  are  located  the  offices 
of  the  National  Government,  more  readily  accessible 
from  the  center  of  population.  In  order  to  do  this, 
it  was  found  necessary  to  demolish  the  old  convent 
of  St.  Augustin,  and  this  work  has  for  some  time 
been  going  on. 

In  demilishing  the  old  interior  walls,  a  horrible 
discovery  was  made  a  few  days  ago.  Niches  were 
found  in  these  walls,  the  masonry  being  of  great 
thickness,  and  in  the  niches,  which  had  been  sealed 
up,  were  found  quantities  of  bones,  which  were  recog- 
nized as  those  of  little  children,  mostly  infants. 

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The  Protestant  Observer  published  a  similar  story  con- 
cerning a  European  convent;  and  both  of  these  horrible 
revelations  not  only  corroborate  Maria  Monk,  William 
Hogan,  Blanco  White,  Charles  Chiniquy,  Alessandro  Gavaz- 
zi,  Manuel  Ferrando,  and  other  ex-priests  and  ex-nuns,  but 
they  corroborate  the  illustrious  Catholic  scholar,  Erasmus, 
v^^ho  published,  in  the  times  of  Luther  and  Henry  VIII. ,  a 
most  scathing  denunciation  of  the  convents  and  monasteries. 

If  the  unnatural  detention  of  young  women  behind  thick 
walls,  iron-barred  windows,  and  locked  doors,  does  not  in- 
evitably lead  to  vices  and  crimes,  why  did  Pope  Innocent 
VIII.  issue  a  decree  (bull),  in  his  effort  to  suppress  what  he 
called  "illicit  pleasures?" 

If  an  infallible  pope  thus  told  us  "what  goes  on  in  the 
nunneries,"  how  can  a  Roman  Catholic  doubt  it? 

The  convents  and  monasteries  were  denounced  in  many  of 
the  great  Councils  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  notably 
by  the  Council  of  Mayence,  the  Council  of  Troyes,  the  Coun- 
cil of  Rheims,  the  Council  of  Claremont,  and  the  Council  of 
Sens. 

Must  not  the  evil  have  been  very  great,  to  call  forth  public 
disclosures  by  popes  and  councils? 

At  that  time  all  Europe  was  Catholic,  and  the  New  World, 
discovered  by  the  sea-rovers  of  Scandinavia,  had  not  been 
colonized. 

At  the  time  when  popes  and  councils  were  thundering 
against  monastic  vice  and  crime,  no  harm  could  be  done  to 
the  church  by  telling  the  truth. 

The  Roman  church  had  no  opposition ;  and  one  branch  of 
the  organization  could  chastise  another,  without  disrupting 
the  system. 

If  any  one  monk  became  too  loud  and  persistent  in  his  at- 
tack upon  Roman  Catholic  immorality,  the  pope  could  put 
him  into  a  living  tomb  and  let  him  starve — as  happened  to 
Benedetto  da  Foiana — or  could  burn  him  at  the  stake,  as 
happened  to  Savonarola.  (It  was  Pope  Alexander  VI.,  who 
murdered  Savonarola;  it  was  Pope  Clement  VII.,  who  im- 
prisoned Benedetto,  and  starved  him  to  death.) 

After  King  Henry  VIII.  had  uncovered  the  convents  and 
monasteries  in  England,  and  had  suppressed  them  because 
of  their  cesspool  condition;  and  after  Luther,  Calvin  and 
Knox  had  kindled  the  fire  of  the  Reformation,  it  ivns  no 
longer  safe  for  pope  or  council  to  proclaim  the  truth  about 
the  vicious  lives  of  these  unmarried  Catholics. 

To  have  done  so,  would  have  been  to  supply  ammunition 
to  the  pioneer  reformers. 

Southern  Pasnpt^^^^ 

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The  pope  and  his  priest-editors  can  not  now  afford  to  have 
the  truth  known  about  "what  goes  on  in  the  nunneries," 
consequently  they  deny  the  State's  right  to  inspect  them. 

With  sublime  impudence,  they  compare  these  walled 
prisons  with  the  homes  of  private  citizens. 

Does  any  home  of  any  private  citizen  contain  a  barred- 
window  and  locked-door  department,  where  fifty,  or  a  hun- 
dred, single  women  are  kept  in  close  confinement  for  life? 

It  so,  the  private  citizen  who  holds  those  women,  could  not 
object  to  State  inspection,  without  convincing  every  im- 
partial mind  that  the  barred-window  department  concealed 

In  the  British  Museum  (Harleian  department,  numbers 
1850,  1  and  2,  of  Volume  11.  of  Mss.,  folio  of  1808),  you  can 
find  a  copy  of  the  Taxae  Concellariae  et  Poenitentiae,  which 
was  stolen  by  John  Aymon,  and  sold  to  the  Earl  of  Oxford. 

Aymon  was  Apostolic  Prothonotary,  at  the  Vatican;  and 
upon  the  death  of  Pope  Innocent  XII.,  he  took  these  little 
books  from  the  archives  of  the  Roman  Chancery. 

They  contain  a  list  of  vices  and  crimes  common  among  the 
Catholics  of  the  time,  and  of  the  fines  (or  taxes)  assessed 
against  these  sins,  as  the  price  of  forgiveness  by  the  pope 
and  his  priests.     (Absolution) , 

In  book  1,  page  117,  is  the  price  for  absolution,  when  the 
offense  is  of  the  nature  of  incest. 

Page  122 :    Comutatio  votorum  et  ultimarum  voluntatum. 

Page  123:  Absolutio  pro  illo  qui  congnovit  mulierem 
cujus  confessionem  audiverat. 

Absolutio  pro  illo  qui  cognovit  moniatem  intra  sepum 
monasterii. 

The  fine,  or  tax,  levied  as  a  condition  to  papal  pardon  in 
these  cases  of  crimes  in  the  confessional,  and  in  the  religious 
houses,  is  the  highest  and  best  evidence  that  the  pope  and 
the  priests  recognized  their  existence,  as  a  necessary  evil 
incident  to  the  system. 

Therefore,  this  truth  stares  us  in  the  face : 

Before  the  Reformation,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  popes, 
councils,  scholars  and  book-writers  ADMITTED  THE 
CESS-POOL  CHARACTER  OF  THE  CONVENTS  AND 
MONASTERIES. 

The  pope's  own  secret  archives  contained  the  code  which 
assessed  the  tax  on  these  crimes,  just  as  popes  of  that 
period,  before  Luther's  Reformation,  licensed  and  taxed  the 
houses  of  prostitution  in  Italy. 

Then  the  only  question  which  remains  in  dispute  in  this — 


Are  young  and  healthy  men  the  same  that  they  were,  for- 
merly, or  has  human  nature  undergone  a  change? 

If  the  old  Adam  has  been  taken  out  of  the  robust  young 
priests  whose  sensual  faces  are  seen  everywhere,  the  opera- 
tion left  no  visible  marks.       '^ 

On  page  5  of  "the  Cock  and  Bull  Story  edition"  of  The 
New  Century,  I  find  the  picture  of  Bishop  Schrembs. 

/  never  saiv  a  more  sensual  countenance. 


BISHOP  SCHREMBS. 


Schrembs'  neck  is  like  that  of  a  bull;  maybe  that's  why 
The  New  Century  put  his  picture  in  this  edition. 

Schrembs'  jowl  is  so  swinish,  that  it  slopes  into  his  neck 
without  showing  any  line  of  jawbone. 

Schrembs'  lips  are  thick,  and  his  nose  is  thick,  and  his  ear 
is  thick,  and  the  glimpse  we  get  of  his  shoulder  indicates  the 
typical  physique  of  the  portly  priest,  who  is  nearly  always 
largest  in  the  middle. 

Schrembs'  eyes  are  hard,  arrogant,  insolent,  haughty,  and 
cruel:  that  man  would  gladly  burn  you  and  me,  for  the 
heinous  offense  of  being  rational  Protestants. 


For  the  information  of  fair-minded  Catholics  who  want 
the  truth,  1  will  name  several  Catholic  writers  who  de- 
nounced the  unnatural,  domoralizing  convent  (cloistered), 
with  at  least  as  much  vehemence  as  I  have  ever  seen : 

Pope  Gregory  XIL,  Father  of  John  Busch,  Dr.  Claude 
d'Espence  (member  of  the  Paris  Sorbonne),  Nicholas  de 
Clamenges  (Rector  of  the  University  of  Paris),  St.  Bridget, 
the  daughter  of  Birger,  a  Swedish  prince  of  royal  blood; 
Ambrosio  de  Traversar ;  and  Saint  Charles  Borromeo! 


THE  NEGRO  PRIEST  DORSEY  OF  LOUISIANA 

One  of  the  black  virgins  who  has  access  to  the  convents,  where  the 
white  women  are  kept  for  the  use  of  unmarried  priests. 


To  this  list  of  names,  add  that  of  Scipione  de  Ricci,  whose 
official  report  on  the  Tuscan  convents  renders  Maria  Monk's 
narrative  a  tame  story. 

First  of  all,  to  meet  the  absurd  statement  that  the  nuns 
are  not  prisoners,  I  will  quote  the  law  of  the  Roman  church, 
as  laid  down  by  the  Council  of  Trent : 

"Nunneries  should  be  kept  carefully  closed,  and  egress 
absolutely  forbidden  to  the  nuns,  under  any  pretense  what- 
ever without  episcopal  license,  under  pain  of  excommunica- 
tion." 

The  infernal  law  of  the  Roman  Church  goes  ever  further, 


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and  declares  it  to  be  the  duty  of  civil  magistrates  to  aid  the 
church  in  compelling  escaped  nuns  to  return  to  the  life-long 
imprisonment. 

It  was  against  the  nuns,  as  much  as  it  was  against  the 
male  serfs,  that  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  adopted  and  en- 
forced the  first  fugitive  slave  law. 

Let  me  tell  you  what  Pope  Gregory  XII.  said  about  the 
cloistered  monks  and  nuns : 

"In  these  monasteries,  almost  all  religion  has  been  laid 


NUN'S  BABE  BAPTIZED  AND  THEN  KILLED,  BY  HOLDING  ITS  NOSE 

aside,  lust  and  carnal  corruption  between  the  males  and  the 
nuns  have  entered  in — and  many  other  vices  which  shame 
forbids  me  to  speak  of  minutely. 

"Many  of  the  nuns  commit  fornication  with  the  very 
monks  who  are  placed  in  authority  over  them;  and  in  the 
same  monasteries  many  bring  forth  sons  and  daughters. 

"What  is  most  grievous  is,  not  a  few  nuns  destroy  the  chil- 
dren who  see  the  light." 

This  infallible  pope  declares  that  the  nuns  sometimes  rear 
their  children  in  the  convents,  and  introduce  them  into  the 


religious  orders;  that  some  of  the  nuns  bring  about  abor- 
tion; and  that  "not  a  few"  of  them  murder  their  babies  as 
they  are  born ! 

That  is  precisely  what  Maria  Monk  said,  what  Erasmus 
said,  what  William  Hogan  said,  and  what  Charles  Chiniquy 
said. 

How  can  any  Catholic  doubt  "what  goes  on  in  the  nun- 
neries," when  one  of  the  popes  tells  us  that  very  thing? 

Will  the  editors  of  The  New  Century  deny  what  Pope 
Gregory  said? 

Or  will  they  contend  that  human  nature  has  undergone 
such  a  radical  change,  that  bull-necked  priests  have  none  of 
the  passions  of  men? 

(The  evidence  of  Pope  Gregory  against  the  convents  and 
monasteries  will  be  found  by  those  who  write  to  the  Ben- 
ziger  Bros.,  New  York  City,  and  order  by  the  following 
name  of  the  work — 

Theod.  de  Niem;  Basil,  1566.) 

In  Nicholas  de  Clamenges'  book  on  the  "Corruption  of  the 
Ecclesiastics,"  we  read : 

"Modesty  forbids  me  to  say  much  concerning  them  (the 
nuns)  which  could  be  said,  but  instead  of  speaking  of  vir- 
gins dedicated  to  God,  we  should  ourselves  be  dragged  into 
the  shameful  discourse  about  brothels,  the  craft  and  wanton 
tricks  of  harlots,  about  lewd  and  incestuous  deeds. 

"I  will  not  call  the  convents  sanctuaries  of  God,  but  ex- 
ecrable stews  of  Venus,  and  receptacles  where  lascivious 
and  shameless  young  men  gratify  their  lust,  so  that  it  is  the 
same  thing  in  our  days,  to  put  a  nun's  veil  on  a  girl,  as  to 
expose  her  to  public  prostitution." 

Could  any  Protestant  arraignment  be  more  terrific? 

In  1843,  a  judical  investigation,  made  in  France,  proved 
that  the  same  conditions  which  produced  immorality  and 
crime  in  the  nunneries  of  the  Middle  Ages,  produce  it  now. 

When  the  nunneries  of  Barcelona  were  suddenly  opened 
several  years  ago,  the  nuns  led  their  living  children  out,  and 
the  news  flashed  throughout  Christendom. 

Some  of  those  Spanish  nuns  were  in  the  delicate  condition 
which  caused  so  many  of  the  Mexican  nuns  to  hastily  seek 
lying-in  hospitals,  last  year  (1914),  their  priestly  para- 
mours loudly  asserting  that  Villa's  soldiers  had  soiled  those 
"doves  of  the  temple." 

And  while  we  were  laughing  at  the  way  Roosevelt  swal- 
lowed the  priestly  fable,  an  American  nun  was  taken  short, 
and  had  a  baby  in  the  ladies'  rest  room  of  a  Cincinnati  de- 
partment store. 


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Human  nature  has  never  changed:  unnatural  restraint 
perpetually  imposed  upon  red-blooded  mortals,  merely 
drives  them  to  unnatural  relations  with  the  other  sex.  Nor- 
mal young  women  are  just  what  they  were,  in  the  days  of 
the  Woman  caught  in  the  Act. 

Normal  young  men  are  just  what  they  were,  when  David 
reached  out  for  another  man's  wife. 

Insulted  nature  will  not  surrender  her  rights.  Whenever 
she  is  suppressed  in  one  direction,  she  breaks  out  somewhere 
else. 

That's  why  the  Greek  Catholics  compel  their  priests  to 
marry. 

One  of  the  standard  text-books  of  Roman  Catholic  theo- 
logy, is  that  of  Peter  Dens,  the  Irish  prelate.  In  book  5, 
page  287,  of  his  vile  work  on  Moral  Theology,  you  may  read : 

"Proinde  copula  cum  novitia,  vel  cum  Beggina,  vel 
ali  voto  simplici  castitatis  obstricta,  non  constitut 
casum  reservatum ;  neque  vir  religiosis  aut  Sacredos 
comprehenditur,  adeo,  ut  persona  libera  peccans  cum 
Religioso  sacerdonte  non  incurrat  hune  casum." 

This  is  one  those  passages  which  states  that  a 
priest  may  enjoy  a  criminal  intimacy  with  a  nun,  and 
receive  absolution  at  the  hands  of  a  brother  confessor. 

In  other  words,  Peter  Dens  recognized  the  immoral  rela- 
tions of  priests  with  nuns  as  so  common,  so  inevitable,  that 
he  taught  the  priests  to  consider  it  a  slight  offense,  which 
would  be  pardoned,  as  a  routine  matter,  in  a  routine  con- 
fession. 

Virtually,  Peter  Dens  said,  as  Popes  Innocent  and  Gregory 
had  said,  that  the  convents  are  places  where  women  are 
kept  for  the  use  of  priests. 


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IS  YOUR  BRAIN  FOR  SALE? 

By  Thos.  E.  Watson 


On  the  streets  of  every  city,  the  night-lights  flash  upon 
women  who  are  despised  by  the  Eminently  Respectable. 

If  you  were  to  give  some  though  and  investigation  to  the 
subject,  your  loathing  for  those  fallen  women  might  merge 
itself  into  an  immense  pity. 

(Christ  felt  it,  you  know.) 

Very  many  of  those  outcasts  are  the  victims  of  men 
who  took  an  advantage  of  a  love  which  had  no  doubts,  and 
which  trusted  to  the  promises  of  what  appeared  to  be  hon- 
orable courtship. 

Others  were  driven  from  home  by  its  hardships,  its 
scordid  drudgeries,  its  total  lack  of  a  single  hour  of  enjoy- 
ment, the  Puritan  ideal  having  been  overworked. 

Others,  still,  were  defiled  by  the  lewd,  suggestive  ques- 
tion of  priests,  at  the  confessional — an  institution  which  the 
Devil  made,  and  then  transferred  to  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church. 

There  are  others — Many,  many  others! — who  had  to 
choose  between  starvation,  at  a  so-called  "salary,"  and  the 
existence  which  excites  the  abhorrence  of  Eminent  Re- 
spectability. 

The  employer  who  works  the  girl  at  a  wage  which  he 
knoivs  she  can't  live  on,  will  pass  her  by,  not  seeing  her  at 
all,  and  write  his  name  on  "the  charity-list  for  the  feeding 
of  the  Belgians. 

The  priest  who  sowed  in  her  plastic,  adolescent  brain 
those  vile  questions  which  aroused  her  fatal  curiosity  and 
tempted  her  to  do  what  Eve  did,  will  not  know  her,  as  he 
prances  by,  at  the  heels  of  Cardinal  Mercier. 

The  father  and  mother  who  would  not  permit  a  ray  of 
pleasure  to  enter  the  daughter's  life,  and  who  forgot  that 
she,  also,  had  blood  in  her  veins ;  and  who  were  so  fatuous 
as  to  believe  that  a  young  woman  will  ahvays  be  satisfied 
to  wash  dirty  clothes,  sweep  the  house,  make  the  beds,  cook 
the  victuals,  carry  the  slops  to  the  family  pig,  and  so  forth 
— these  fathers  and  mothers  become  hearts  of  stone,  and 
never,  never  soften  to  the  appeal  which  memory  makes — 


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memories  of  the  dimple-cheeked  babe,  the  infant  who  filled 
the  house  with  innocent  mirth,  whose  caresses  begged  for 
parental  tenderness,  and  whose  heart  hungered  for  legiti- 
mate mating  and  motherhood. 

And  these  frigid  fathers  and  mothers  will  leave  their 
miserable  daughters  to  walk  the  streets,  pathetically  seek- 
ing the  hire  of  shame,  while  they  rush  forward  for  a  high 
place  on  the  books  of  the  charity  brokers  who  are  convuls- 
ing themselves  to  rebuild  the  European  Cathedrals,  on 
whose  marble  steps  Catholic  beggers  will  vainly  ask  the 
priests  for  bread. 

The  lover,  who  deceived  a  trusting  girl,  robbed  her  of 
her  priceless  jewel,  and  then  mocked  her  woe,  will  hold  his 
head  high,  as  he  hurries  past  his  victim,  and  he  will  prob- 
ably put  a  ten-dollar  bill  in  the  Episcopal  plate,  as  J.  P. 
Morgan  comes  dowm  the  aisle. 

Christ  could  find  no  words  too  hot  and  wrathful  for  the 
Pharisee ;  but  the  Pharisee  now  says,  that  he  is  the  earthly 
spokesman  of  Christ. 

It  that  one  of  the  reasons  why  so  many  churches  have 
no  congregations? 

Creation  was  at  its  best  when  it  clothed  Woman  with 
the  snowy  mantle  of  modesty,  and  lit  within  the  mind  of 
Man  the  intellect  that  is  kin  to  the  stars. 

No  saddler  thing  can  happen  than  the  sale  of  a  virgin's 
purity;  but  is  it  not  a  terrible  thing  to  see  a  man  auction 
off  his  brain? 

The  greater  the  intellect,  the  greater  the  desecration ! 

I  am  not  speaking  of  lawyers :  they  hang  out  their 
shingles,  and  they  make  no  secret  of  their  trade. 

I  am  not  speaking  of  "diplomats" :  they  joyously  admit 
that  their  game  is  to  beat  the  other  fellow  telling  lies. 

Woodrow  Wilson  was  so  apprehensive  that  Robert  Lans- 
ing was  an  inefficient  liar,  that  he,  Woodrow,  went  over  to 
do  the  lying  himself — and  he  took  Col.  House  along,  to  help 
him  do  it. 

Even  then,  Wilson  was  painfully  jockeyed  by  the  Japs, 
the  Paps,  the  French,  and  several  experienced  liars  from 
Scotland,  Ireland,  England  and  Wales. 

No !    /  am  speaking  of  Editors ! 

They  pretend  to  be  writing  for  the  people,  and  because 
of  that  pretense,  any  little  cross-roads  jackass  can  edit  a 
paper  in  which  he  calls  himself,  "we." 


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This  royal,  "we"  is  an  abbreviation  of  "We  the  People 
of  the  United  States." 

When  you  get  a  good  grasp  on  this  fact,  and  then  glance 
at  some  of  the  papers  whose  editors  style  themselves  "we," 
you'll  feel  like  hunting  a  vacant  lot  to  throw  a  fit. 

The  King  calls  himself  "we,"  because  he  inherits  the 
idea,  that  he  is  the  embodiment  of  the  power  of  all  the  peo- 
ple— whose  blood  is  red,  while  his  is  blue. 

The  Kaiser  used  to  call  himself  "we,"  except  when  he 
varied  it  by  saying,  "Me  and  God." 

The  Pope  calls  himself,  "we" ;  which  means  that  he,  also, 
is  a  king:  Christ  always  alluded  to  himself  as  "I". 

So,  the  Editor,  speaking  for  the  whole  community,  uses 
the  royal  form  of  "we":  this  would  be  harmless  and  mof- 
fensive,  if  he  really  spoke  our  sentiments  for  our  good. 

But  suppose  he  sells  his  brain  to  an  interest  which  is 
opposed  to  ours,  and  endeavors  to  convince  us,  that  truth 
is  falsehood. 

In  that  case,  he  falls  as  the  woman  falls,  when  she  vol- 
untarily sells  her  mantle  of  snow. 

With  the  tvoman,  it  was  a  momentary  impulse  or  a  bit- 
ter necessity. 

With  the  Editor  the  fall  is  premeditated,  deliberate, 
sustained  PROSTITUTION. 

Can  you  view  it  in  any  other  light? 

The  prostituted  Editor  has  no  right  to  heap  scron  upon 
the  fallen  woman;  in  the  eyes  of  a  Just  Judge,  she  may  be 
purer  of  heart  than  he  is. 

Travelers  tell  us  that  there  are  Oriental  people  who  wear 
no  clothes,  and  whose  women  are  perfectly  modest. 

Isn't  that  the  survival  of  the  story  of  the  Garden  of  Eden? 

Bill  Sikes  forces  Oliver  Twist  into  crime,  but  the  boy's 
heart  remained  untainted. 

This  hows  that  Charles  Dickens  understood  human 
nature. 

It  is  conveivable  to  my  mind,  that  a  woman,  forced  to 
lead  an  impure  life,  may  not,  at  heart,  be  rotten;  and  I  am 
absolutely  certain,  that  many  of  our  idle-rich,  fashionable 
"ladies,"'ARE  HARLOTS  AT  HEART. 

Is  there  any  difference,  in  principle,  between  the 
wretched  street-walker,  and  the  girl  who  sells  herself  to 
a  wealthy  old  goat — covering  the  sale  with  an  elaborate 
marriage  ceremony? 


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And  the  American  heiress  who  sells  herself  for  a  for- 
eign title, .  worn  by  some  notorious  libertine — is  she  any 
chaster  at  heart  than  the  poor  girl  who  didn't  have  the 
courage  to  starve? 

But  I  was  speaking  of  the  Editor  who  calls  himself 
"We,"  and  nobly  devotes  his  brain  to  some  "interest,"  which 
wants  us  to  believe  that'  black  is  white. 

Let  us  suppose  that  the  interest  is  a  foreign  church, 
whose  infamous  record  reeks  with  the  hideousness  of  Mex- 
ican depravity.  Central  Ameican  pollution,  South  American 
illiteracy  and  illegitimacy;  a  church  whose  satanic  instru- 
ments of  torture  are  yet  to  be  seen  in  every  land  her  priests 
have  dominated  and  befouled :  a  church  whose  dungeons, 
and  convent  prisons  reveal  skeleton  witnesses  of  secret 
crimes:  a  church  whose  creed  benumbs  the  human  brain, 
and  whose  law  stifles  the  last  breath  of  human  liberty — 
What  would  you  think  of  such  an  Editor? 


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